2015 was one of the best years of gaming, a year where next gen finally started to deliver a unique experience. However, that was just the beginning, 2016 promises to be a better year with the release of highly anticipated titles. Here are my top 10 most anticipated games of 2016.Games like Final Fantasy VII Remake (I have literally seen the trailer every day since it got announced), Kingdom Hearts III, and Quantum Break weren’t included because are unlikely to be released this year and I don’t own an Xbox One yet.

10) Digimon Adventure Cyber Sleught: With the announcement of Digimon Adventure Tri I decided watched the entire first season after so many years and realized how well held up. Great characters, story arcs, and battles. In fact, it reminded how much fun I had watching it as a kid. Months later Bandai Namco announced that they will be localizing Cyber Sleught, while I was skeptical about the game (Digimon games have been hit and miss) the game looked really good with a gameplay was similar to the Persona Series that sold me the game instantly. More importantly, you can fuse Angewomon with Ladydevimon, nuff said.

9) Street Fighter V: Capcom made a lot of questionable decisions during the last generation and the fact that most of their current games are remasters can tell us many things about the current state of the company.However, Street Fighter V is the exception to the rule, the art style and characters redesign looks great, plus the return of fan favorites like R. Mika is a great addition to the series (I can’t wait to see Juri's redesign). Despite screwing up Ken’s hair the game looks very smooth and deep. It feels like this will be the best entry of the highly acclaimed fighting series.

8) Horizon Zero Dawn: I’ve been very critical to the state of Sony first party support to the PS4. Despite highly successful games like Until Dawn and Bloodborne, is not a secret that many fans have felt disappointed for the lack of exclusives and how bad The Order 1886 was.However, 2016 seems to be the year where the exclusives will finally arrive. if there a new IP that has me hyped is Horizon Zero Dawn, the moment that they showed at e3 blew me away from how it looked. In addition Killzone's developer, Guerrilla games is behind the project, which gives me hope because this is their chance to make something different rather than a FPS that will reach to a bigger audience unlike Killzone. Hopefully this IP will be the new Flagship franchise for Sony.

7) Nier Automata: I did not play the first Nier and to be honest, I was never interested in it. What changed now? it is very simple, Platinum Games, a developer that I consider the Rare of the action games. Platinum always nails the gameplay, it doesn't matter whether the game is small like Transformers Devastation or big budget games like Bayonetta and Metal Gear Rising. More importantly the main character looks very well designed and Platinum is famous for having great female characters in their games. However, I don't know what to expect from the game rpg mechanics but one thing is for sure, the combat will excel.

6) The Legend of Zelda for Wii U or NX: We don’t know much about the new Zelda game other than footage showed a year ago, what we saw of the game looked really good but we still don’t know much about the story, new features, and characters.In addition, rumors suggest that Nintendo’s new console the NX will come out this year, as a result many people believe that this game will be in a cross-generational like Twilight Princess was back then. Regardless of which platform the game is releases, I can’t wait to see if the first Zelda in HD delivers to a medium where open world’s games are the most popular genre.

5) Mass Effect Andromeda: It’s been 4 years since the controversial ending of arguably the best new franchise from the last generation. One of the most exciting things about Andromeda is how little we know, something’s that publishers should do more often like Bethesda did with Fallout 4 (the game was announced in June and came out in December) and people won’t be burned out for too many trailers like Watch Dogs.However, Bioware will need to deliver in this new entry in order to live up to the legacy of the old trilogy, more importantly, new characters will be introduced to the series, it will be interesting to see how much Bioware relies to the series lore and at the same time make the series a fresh start for newcomers which can be very challenging, but after the success of the Dragon Age Inquisition and the fact the Mass Effect is very rich and deep universe, I'm pretty confident that Bioware will be able to pull off this task.

4) Uncharted 4 A Thief’s End: This is the last games of the series, which is weird, it will be over after only 4 entries. The first Uncharted arrived in 2007 and people was surprised how good it was despite its flaws. Two years later Uncharted 2 took the series into a whole new level making Uncharted the flagship franchise of PlayStation and Uncharted 3 was almost as good. More importantly, Naughty Dogs are one of the best developers gaming. Despite some controversies during the game production, this is a company that has always delivered, it is not coincidence that The Last of Us and Uncharted 2 are considered masterpieces. In addition, everything that we have seen about the game looks fantastic and I can’t way to see how Nathan Drake’s epic story ends for good.

3) Final Fantasy XV: when this game was announced I was 12 years old, it’s been over 10 years since the game’s original announcement. After many delays, name change, scrapped characters, and an entire generation of consoles 2016 will be the year where Final Fantasy XV will finally come out.More importantly, we know that the game is good after what we experienced in the demo last spring. However, some problems need to be addressed, but I am very confident that Square Enix will make Final Fantasy goodness again. I understand that people have some concerns about the game of the troublesome development, but is important to remember that some games that have been through multiple changes have ended up being good, a great example is Until Dawn.In addition, Square has been listening to the fans lately, this company that remade Final Fantasy XIV fromd the ground after the disastrous first game and is finally remaking the highly requested Final Fantasy VII, so let’s have faith in them.

2) Fire Emblem Fates: This is a very interesting franchise, 3 years ago Fire Emblem was almost dead, but thankfully after the great success of Fire Emblem Awakening the series finally blew up in the west. Developer Intelligent Systems made Awakening the most accessible game of the series, the result? They had arguably the best entry in the series. In addition Fire Emblem is now one of the most importantly, IP for the Big N, It is not a coincidence that we have 6 Fire Emblem characters in Smash Bros each of them are a huge following from FE fan base. Another interesting point is than Nintendo is taking the Pokémon Approach by releasing 2 different games, each of them has a different story and characters. The FE Fates Birthright campaign is similar to the one in Awakening while the FE Fates Conquest campaign is more challenging like old school FE. I still believe that Awakening is the best game in Nintendo 3DS and I hope the Fates lives up to its predecessor.

1)Persona 5: This isn’t only my most anticipated games of the year, is perhaps my most anticipated game of the generation, after 9 years Persona is back (hopefully). I wrote before how too many trailers can burn out people about a game, but Persona is the opposite to that.Each trailer is more impressive that the other. More importantly, the game has an impeccable art style, character design, style, and music that makes this series unique. Persona has a special place in gamers hearts in the way that players are able to connect with these character and feel part of that world.in fact, many people feel empty after they beat the game. Persona is a series with excellent gameplay, innovate interactions with the game world, and a great personal experience that I think everyone should try even if they are not fans of the JRPG genre.

Hello there folks I'm back in blogging business and I'm glad for that. It's been a while since my last post, and before start let me make clear that English is not my first language if you find some grammar errors please understand that.

Konami is known for be the house of three important franchises in gaming world (Metal Gear, Castlesvania and Silent Hill). In this generation one of them lost his course (Silent Hill)and other one was just resurrected after years in failure (Castlesvania) I will explain the brilliant future of these franchises, so I will start today with Castlesvania, and later this week with Silent Hill and Metal Gear.

Castlesvania is one of the greatest franchise in gaming and one of the best 2D games ever made, but the transition in 3D has been hard for them. When Konami presented Lord of Shadow they didn't specified that it was a new Castlesvania game maybe because they thought that the game didn't look as an old school Castlesvania. The Franchise needed to reinvent themselves if they wanted survive in this business, so they took some elements from God of War mixing it with Castlesvania spirit , creating one of the best reboots that I ever played. Lord of Shadow is not an history with a happy ending, and one of the best thing is that the developer of the game had the vision that just made a trilogy; in Lord of Shadow we control Gabriel Belmont and his epic journey in a world where God just abandoned his people. The game also have an incredible narrative (by the way is narrated for Sir Patrick Steward !) HARD puzzles (seriously, they are god dam hard), and a good combat system very similar to God of War. Lord of Shadow is a Castlesvania without Dracula (biggest SPOILER of the game) but at the end Gabriel became in the prince of the darkness.

When the imminent sequel of the game was announced, fans of the first game were exited about the future of the franchise. The first video Konami show us the Dracula castle being attacked and Gabriel defend it, but it wasn't until the last E3 when they finally showed more details of the plot and some gameplay. After the conference the director of the game said in an interview that the game will borrow features from Zelda franchise(we already saw what happened when they did the same with God of War right?) including some open world elements, and longer duration. However the game will be setting in modern era and other parts medieval era plus the returns of Zobek (voice for Patrick Steward)

After though a lot about all the potential of this game, we may be talking about one of the biggest sleepers in gaming since Arkham Asylum, and if the game is as it suppose to be might be, its solid candidate to game of the year among Bioshock Infinite, The Last of Us, Tomb Raider and maybe Watch Dogs and GTA V, but the sleeper condition might be against them. Lord of Shadow 2 will be the ending of this wonderful trilogy, and taking hack and slash, RPG combining with plataforming elements. This game is the best example of how every genre can make a transition where hopefully franchises like Megaman can learn , so hopefully the sequel will get the attention that deserves